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No pics...but a significant update. Fired her up tonight. We had a fuel leak last night that stymied us and delayed the big moment. But after regrouping and going through our preflight checklist
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Having a celebratory beer - congrats! Fire it up w the line open at the gauge end to bleed and document flow?
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Milestone! It feels so good hearing it run for the first time, congrats!
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Thanks, it did sound great...especially through the 20 odd feet of dryer vent serving as our one off custom exhaust.
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Good news-got plenty of oil pressure.
Bad news-cluster has to come out...gauge is bad.
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Jim...spring got here today. It's a perfect example and will clean up great...can't thank you enough.
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No stupidity"............stuff happens........ask me how I know!
Congrats on getting it fired up........give me a couple weeks to get past the spring rush at work and I want to come see it.....
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Brad your welcome, glad I could help a little. Congrats on firing up the engine. Wish I was doing that, but I m working on brakes
Hope things continue to work out on your build, great build Lock Doc is selling oil lines in the classifieds, you might have a hard time finding those ferrules
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Here is a little of us two steppin' backwards today. Everything came off so we could fix the paint issues associated with our fuel line leak. Then all back together with a little Loctite thread sealer version 565 for fuel lines. Fingers crossed we've got it licked.
Took out the oil pressure gauge, couldn't see an obvious problem. Luckily they're just going to warranty that...for a minute they wanted me to take out and return the entire cluster.
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As an aside...I started taking apart the bucket seats that I got from another board member today for clean up. Here's the manufacturer date on the back...since I've been so consumed with build date stuff and looking for other build date clues under the dash, behind the cluster, on the rear axle and the transfer case...If my truck had it's original seats, this would have been another date to add to the stack.
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Re: 70 Blazer Frame Off
Making progress, I see! Great job..
What plate is this on your T-case?
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Thanks...
...It's the build tag from New Process. Here's the only close up shot I've got of it. It came back from the transmission shop in full primer. We had to go back and detail it.
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The old girl got quarantined off so the hood, tailgate, and a bunch of other odds and ends could get worked and painted....
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Black on the hood ended up being a little flatter than we were going for, but it looks too good to change. Color on the inside of tailgate and other small bits. Painted an OE set of vents as well as the repro ones that came with the VA set up...since the repro ones fit kind of like repro ones do.
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Vents in and hood back on. A little bit of gapping and a lot of prepping for final paint this week.
...it's definitely time to trade in the old iPhone. My photo quality seems to have really degraded over the course of this build. Surely it's not me.
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Looks Great!
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Your comment on an electric oil pressure gauge is prompting me to se if there is any market for a conversion. I did the volt gauge conversions for our trucks and they sell rather well. I am not sure if there would be a market for the oil pressure conversion to electric. I have some ideas. The hardest part would be modifying the stock gauge tin to accept the new style gauge. My idea would give you a electronic gauge that looks stock in the dash. If you need a factory oil pressure gauge let me know. I have them in 60 and 80 lb Keep up the good work, Tom
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Thanks.
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Edit: To be clear, I think there would be a great market for electric oil pressure conversions. It just seems to make sense to me.
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This thing is looking fantastic.
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Thanks Jarrod...I appreciate that.
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Grille went back on for hood fitment...even if it's just temporary, couldn't help but take another pic.
...more wet sanding. Getting closer to spraying color.
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Brad, your work is impeccable....grille looks sweet on there, always enjoy reading your updates
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